MANAGING THE SUPPLIER RISKS IN A PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
Bour, Pauline (2016)
Bour, Pauline
Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu (Keski-Pohjanmaan ammattikorkeakoulu)
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016072913619
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016072913619
Tiivistelmä
The goal of the present paper is to understand the supplier risks within a purchasing department, and find out the impact of the management in the implementation of a methodology.
In a first place the theoretical part provides the context and the stakes that a purchasing department is confronted with when managing the risks, the evolution of this service and its central role in the man-agement of the supplier risks. One part highlights the different risks met by a purchasing department in general, going through the macro economical risks, the financial ones, then the industrial and quali-ty risks, to continue with the legal risks and those bound to the image and finally the human risks. The idea is to relate all possible risks to, in a third part, evoke the implementation of a methodology of risk management. At last, an integrated approach into the management process will lead to the different steps required to manage the supplier risks.
The experiment and interview were aimed at understanding the risks at a purchasing department and above all the means to manage the supplier risks. Data for the research were collected from an entire purchasing and negotiation department of author’s first internship company and the interview was done in a purchasing service of a SME.
This study supports a clear method used by almost all companies to forecast and handle the risks, pre-viously detailed. In addition, an example will complete the words previously mentioned.
In a first place the theoretical part provides the context and the stakes that a purchasing department is confronted with when managing the risks, the evolution of this service and its central role in the man-agement of the supplier risks. One part highlights the different risks met by a purchasing department in general, going through the macro economical risks, the financial ones, then the industrial and quali-ty risks, to continue with the legal risks and those bound to the image and finally the human risks. The idea is to relate all possible risks to, in a third part, evoke the implementation of a methodology of risk management. At last, an integrated approach into the management process will lead to the different steps required to manage the supplier risks.
The experiment and interview were aimed at understanding the risks at a purchasing department and above all the means to manage the supplier risks. Data for the research were collected from an entire purchasing and negotiation department of author’s first internship company and the interview was done in a purchasing service of a SME.
This study supports a clear method used by almost all companies to forecast and handle the risks, pre-viously detailed. In addition, an example will complete the words previously mentioned.